Authorities were investigating on Thursday if a metallic rock that smashed through the roof of a home in New Jersey was a meteorite. The small, oblong rock, weighing 13 ounces (377 grams), crashed into a home in Freehold Township, 50 miles south of New York, on Tuesday evening and was embedded in the wall on the top floor of the two-story house.
By law it belongs to the homeowner. Got me wondering how much it might be worth if it is a meteorite. Just on its value as a rock from outer space, probably not as much as one might think, unless it's a unique material. But it has a great deal of novelty value because it fell through a roof, didn't fragment, & the event made the news. So it could generate a lot of interest on eBay from wealthy people who collect weird things. In
Day of the Triffids, a meteor shower made everyone on Earth who looked at it blind, & the meteorites sowed the planet with walking, carnivorous weeds.
The Blob oozed out of a smoking meteorite, promptly climbed the stick of an old man poking at it & ate the guy. So let the buyer beware.
# posted by Bob : 11:02 PM
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
